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Title: Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History by Peter Wallenstein ISBN: 0-312-29474-3 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent look back at the outlawing of interracial marriage
Comment: With the debate over gay marriage impacting the presidential race, Peter Wallenstein provides a timely history lesson focusing on the previous matrimony taboo: interracial marriage. In 1958, a Virginia couple was arrested for violating state law on interracial marriage. In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the law was unconstitutional, thus outlawing miscegenation laws some as old as three centuries. Mr. Wallenstein points out that the laws on interracial marriage tied very closely to social attitudes on race throughout the nation's history and in many cases back to colonial times
He eloquently and interestingly points out the history of interracial couples and miscegenation laws. The author makes the case that the more you allow the state to dictate about adults, the more everyone loses. Imagine what that means with an amendment. TELL THE COURT I LOVE MY WIFE: RACE, MARRIAGE, AND LAW - AN AMERICAN HISTORY is a well written, thought provoking, and perfectly timed look back at a black eye on the nation's heritage. Readers who see the dots connected to the current debate will want to read Jonathan Rauch's strong dissertation in support of GAY MARRIAGE.
Harriet Klausner
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Title: Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America by Renee Christine Romano ISBN: 0674010337 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Interracialism : Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law by Werner Sollors ISBN: 0195128575 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History by Martha Elizabeth Hodes, Martha Hodes ISBN: 0814735576 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption by Randall Kennedy ISBN: 0375402551 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South by Martha Hodes ISBN: 0300077505 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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